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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hear about research in Dr Rüdiger Riesch's lab (@evolecollab.bsky.social) on how animals are affected by changes to their environment and how they adapt to them 🐟 www.youtube.com/shorts/BDHHG...

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Research in 60s - Dr Rüdiger Riesch

YouTube video by Royal Holloway

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New book on effects of plant diversity on plant-herbivore interactions edited by @xmoreira.bsky.social et al. is out! Juri Felix and I have contributed a chapter on role of tree traits in mediating effects of forest diversity on herbivores: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

An amazing couple of days at the 12th International Conference of Poeciliid and Goodeid Biologists (PoGoBio2026) in Padova, Italy, last week with my MSc and PhD students, who did an excellent job at presenting their research.

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Michi Tobler @tobler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New in JFB: Alfaro huberi must have one of the strangest mating behaviors among poeciliid fishes. #TeamFish #FishSci Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Corresponding video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWA...

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Excited to share our new paper, led by Brazilian collaborators, on male coloration of guppies in response to urban pollution: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @rhulbiology.bsky.social

This is a graphical abstract, showing that male nuptial color changes with increasing pollution. Guppies in more polluted waters develop more intense white ornaments and increase the number and body area covered by violet color ornaments.

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Congratulations indeed to @rsmehlhausenfranks.bsky.social on passing his viva yesterday with minor corrections! Fascinating work on flocking dynamics in pigeons.

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Big congratulations @rsmehlhausenfranks.bsky.social on passing your viva today with minor corrections. It’s been a pleasure supervising you. Thank you to the examiners @rjpheathcote.bsky.social and @markjfbrown.bsky.social! And thank you Paul Devlin and @evolecollab.bsky.social for your help too!

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

It was a fun day indeed and great to hear what everyone is working on or thinking about :)

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Such an amazing honour for an amazing person and colleague!

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Applications for PhD Studentships with @treesdla.bsky.social now open for 2026 intake. @kratina.bsky.social and I offer a PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish in Italy, France, and Spain (www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...). Please get in touch if you are interested.

An invasive mosquitofish in a habitat in southern Italy

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Congratulations to Dr Walter Lucchesi and Dr Becky Thomas (@beckythomas.bsky.social) who have been awarded Senior Fellowship of @advancehe.bsky.social (formerly the Higher Education Academy). This reflects their leadership in education both within and beyond @rhulbiology.bsky.social 🎉👏

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Thank you, Audrey, glad you liked it and animal sounds are fascinating indeed :)

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One of @rhulbiology.bsky.social UG students, Alice, attended @britishecologicalsociety.org summer school this year and shared these lovely phots. She befriended many like-minded ecologists, networked with people from different environmental sectors, and studied a wide range of topics & organisms

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Our 3rd year students are having great time at Borneo fieldcourse expedition setting camera traps, doing behavioural observations and participating in tree planting for the Regrow Borneo project

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Great post from our alumna Izzy Frey reflecting on her own journey from receiving unexpected #ALevelResults to her current job as an ecologist at Tetra Tech and why studying biology @royalholloway.bsky.social ended up the best decision she ever made www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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#alevelresultsday | Izzy Frey

Now that the dust of the much-anticipated (and often dreaded) #ALevelResultsDay this week has begun to settle, having heard mentions of it all over the news, radio and TV, it has me sat here on a Sund...

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Rudy Riesch @evolecollab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I recently wrote about a cool new paper by another research group on Antarctic leopard seal communication for The Conversation; it was fun to focus on some #bioacoustics again for a change. 😃 theconversation.com/antarctic-le...

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Antarctic leopard seal ‘songs’ are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes

The fact that animals don’t use words makes it hard to decode their communication. But technology is starting to make it easier.

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Congrats to Danny Hodgson on successful PhD viva today! On the left is Danny with her supervisors after viva and on the right Danny is shown working at home during COVID lockdown in a specially constructed desktop clean room to prevent sample contamination. Incredible resilience and determination!

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Hannah McGovern 🐟 @hannahmcgx.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

@evolecollab.bsky.social lab cleaned up at the RHUL biology PGR symposium 🐟💪 best MSc talk (Ella) + runner up (Rebecca) and best PhD poster (yours truly)😎

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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